A beautiful choice. I wish I could tell you that I bought 8 Roman gold coins for myself for Hanukkah, one for each night. Unfortunately, it...
Great find. I almost always like the obverses of Vespasian and Titus, but think this one has even more character than usual.
What did poor old Liz ever do to you?
Beautiful coin, but I have a feeling that a crocodile isn't an amphibian.
The hairstyle on my Herennia looks almost exactly like the one on @Shea19's, but she definitely isn't smiling on mine. In fact, she's so annoyed...
They're all really cool. I voted for the group lot of tetradrachms (I love the Philip I and Trajan Decius), the Antiochus IV, and the very clever...
The same thought occurred to me. Not that anyone should judge by my collection, which is still relatively small, but I don't have a single Roman...
Congratulations! Here's a Divus Vespasian shield, with SC on it: [ATTACH] Then there are the "in action"-type shields, as on this Q. Thermus...
A beautiful coin! Here's my one Herennius Etruscus, with Spes on the reverse: [ATTACH]
Thanks. And I will do my best, as their. temporary custodian for just one of the 65 or so lifetimes they've survived so far. Good luck on your thesis!
Thanks. And yes, it seems to me that the Ptolemaic tetradrachms I've seen could have been minted anywhere in the Hellenistic world.
Nice little pun there. I wasn't aware either, and when I saw it my eyes looked like some of the coins in @Ryro's thread.
Yours is great too. Your mummy could use some exercise, though. As I said before, I had no idea these even existed until I saw the one I bought..
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